premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to …

premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to …

Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased …-income countries and may question the effectiveness of care. Using the 2007/08 Botswana Family Health Survey data collected by …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies — augmented with a …

Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We … study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect maternal and infant health via a difference …-sections. In contrast to concerns voiced in the public discourse, the effects on a range of maternal and infant health outcomes are …

positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long …